It's from a balance perspective that its circular reasoning. taking away any star trek flavor or lore its plain as day that because cloaking exists that they have to have weaker shields/hulls. and since they have weaker shields/hulls they have a compensation for that in cloaking, which in turn is the reason that they have gimped ships in the first place. I could make twenty sentences of it flowing back and forth over and over again, but the simple answer is that one of them needs to be altered in such a way to break the loop.

This again is placing the blame on cloak, when it is the system that is leading to the abuse of cloak. If matches started with full teams at the same time, and required objectives other than kills to win cloak cannot be abused in this manner.